New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-22
dress 80 that wherever the eye turned thore was
bewildering variety Of color.

Just before 10 O'Clock, when reached my place,
the Abbey looked already almost full. The doors
were far from closing at 10. as announced There
were arrivals till past IL. The diplomatists, peers,
Members of Parliament and Lord Salisbury came
late. The Lord Chancellor, with the mace duly
borne before him, already in his seat Peeresses
,nce threatened with exclusion, were numerous
| rs peers and far moro ornamental. Two at least
could carry their memories back to fifty years ago.
Ihe dowager Lady Stanley Of Alderley was then
present by the Queens invitation. The Duchess
Of Cleveland, Lord Roseberys mother, had been
one Of the Queens bridesmaids and one of the
bearers of her train at the corona
ZION in 1897. Both were in the Abbey
to-day. Ministers and ex-MinisteD were
numerous. Gladstone was told in his seat,
bus saw him not Sir William Vernon HarcOurt
| Isaw Respondent in green and gold. and William
Henry Smith, the Right Hon. II. c. +. Childcrs and
score Of Others l looked In vain for those men
of letters and science to whom this reign owes so
much distinction. Robert Browning know was
not asked nor Matthew Arnold nor Professor
Huxley. Sir George Otto Trevelyan was refused
an invitation. The only man OF first rank in
literature really saw Mr.. Lecl>y. the historian,
rowds Of unknown and unlSnowabe persons were
visible. Friends Of officials, coo of Dean Bradey's
TO begin with in the two best galleries In the
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ONLY A FEW AMERICAS IN THE ABBEY.
| The Americans present were few The American
Minister of course was there, and Mrs. Phelps and
MIR. and Mrs. Henry White. Mr.. Blaine was in
vited and so was ex-Minster LOWELL but both
preferred to see the procession outside General
Lawton the American Minister to Austria, was in
| the Abbey. Senator Mcpherson was invited, but
| not Senator Hale, who had not thought 1t worth
while to call at the United States Legation.
Minor royalties began TO arrive by half past 0.
Minor officials of the royal household met them at
the screen and gravely led them TO their appointed
seats The vacant choir stalls filed slowly. Up
and down the vacant aisle in the centre restless
beings in blue and gold, more gold than blue, paced
incessantly The first real sensation was the com
| ing of the oriental princes. Never when seen
separately had they appeared such dazzling creatures
rs now, when in group and clad in such embroid-
cries as the Western world has seldom gazed on
and bedecked in jewels that would more than
ransome all the European kings now on English
soil They are princes Of such lineage and such
antiquity as put to blush the most ancient of
EUROPE yet they are not thought worthy Of a
place by the side of such a mushroom monarch as
| ne of the Belgians. They all conducted To the
| choir stalls and there sit mee<y ranged against
the wall at the back. Other royalties arrive,
out are not now to be catalogued.
| The real Kings and Queens make us wait for
them-the Kings of Saxony of Denmark, Of the
Heenes of the Begians, all. indeed of those known
rs her Maestys royal guests who form that sepa-
rate procession which leaves the palace in advance.
They are due at a quarter to l2 they arrive at u
quarter past They march sereney up the aisle
amid what seems to me cold civiliy but with every
outward form of reverence Not one is allowed on
he das all pass either INTO the choir stalls or take
.ilt chairs in the rallied space before the altar
Noon came but no Queen As her guests, who had
out just settled into their places had left BucSng
ham Palace half hour before her, she could not
be expected before half past 12 So the muImur
II talk and light laughter went on again all over
| he building.
| THE COMING OF TIE QUEEN.
1t twenty-five minutes to 1 o'clock when,
lfter false signal which brought the specato ors
% their feet. came a blast from the Queens state
| rumpeter which told of her arrival at the west
| ioor of the Abbey. The white bands Of choristers
IN the galleries either side Of the choir riistled
IN and the whole vast audience rose with them and
| remained standing. Only the Kings and Queens
IN sacrarium remained seated, not caring to rise
ill the Queen was actually visible. Then came a
pause and the minutes glided by. The vice cham
pertains and other gold laced officers Of the royal
household grouped themselves at the entrance to
H
read of the royal procession showed itself. the
ecclesiastics first. dozen canons, minor and
| major, formed guard OF honor TO the Lord Bishop
If London, the Lord Archbishop OF York, the Dean
| # West minister and the Lord Archbishop of Can
erbury These episcopal and archiepiscOpal digni-
aries were in gorgeous robes Of dark velvet and
yold, strangely fashioned and monastic More
strange were the heralds in tabards
who came after Then followed a
long array Of great officials
then Hereditary princes. hereditary grand dukes,
Serene Highnesses Imperial Highnesses and Royal
| Highnesses. Whispers of admiration greeted the
tall, wel-set figure brilliantly uniformed in white,
of the Crown Prince of Germany. These person
ages walked three abreast the last OF the tros be-
ing the Duke of Connaught, the Prince Of Wales
and the Duke of Edinburgh Then came, preccded
| by the Lord Steward and Lord Chamberlain walk
ing bravely backward. the Queen. Alone Of all
that gitterng procession, Her Majesty was plainly
dressed, in a gown Of black and gray In broad
stripes bonnet that looked like another crown OF
gray hairs and the blue ribbon of the Garter from
| left to right her broad shoulders. She
moved, as ever with dignity as beautiful as 1t Is
| marvellous in woman of such physique, her face
gravely radiant, her eyes turned right and left as
with her uneaualed demeanor she acknowedg ged
sautations addressed to her from either side.
The bishops great officers. hereditary dukes and
princes all passed to the right or left of the dais
| where stood the coronation chair, over which the
coronation robes had been thrown, and passed on to
the sacrarium, entered the dais at the side The
Qaeen alone kept on. answering to right or left,
and reached the broad steps left untrodden by all
but the royal feet, which she mounted slowly with
some help from the Lord Steward and the Lord
Chamberlain. and arrived the throne.
| There she stood moment before seating herself
nf haol "a
body signifed her royal recognition of the homage
tins wonderful company offered her. That wa,
the most brilliant moment of all'-kings queens
peers of England, commons Of England hei
youngest loveliness and her Oldest nobility am
bassa ors, ministers. princes, princesses and sov